If you haven’t heard of the MMM Bitcoin scam yet consider yourself lucky, but this Ponzi scheme continues to do the rounds, both in the developing world and first world, to the point where SiliconANGLE’s previous coverage continues to gain traffic as more and more “members” attempt to sign up new users. So what is ...

Russian Bitcoin and altcoin exchange YObit.net is facing some difficulties with users reporting that they are having problems withdrawing funds from the site and obtaining support services. Founded in January 2015, YObit.net differentiates itself by offering an extremely wide range of altcoins and allows altcoin makers to list their altcoins on the site, seemingly unchecked, ...

A new form of malware has found its way into apps listed in the Google Play Android app store and is secretly clicking on ads on porn sites, according to a report published last week. According to ESET security researchers, over the prior seven months over 300 apps hosting the “porn clicker” malware have been ...

Google, Inc. likes to present itself as a champion of free speech, and is a major contributor to the Chilling Effects website, a site that documents DMCA takedown requests. But if you follow the broader copyright debate you know there’s a major flaw in Google’s empire, and that’s its video hosting site YouTube. For years ...

Microsoft Corp.’s augmented reality headset the HoloLens is just about here, at least for developers, with news over the weekend that it’s about to go on pre-order sale this Monday. According to a post from Forbes published before the embargo but since withdrawn, the HoloLens will be offered on pre-order from February 29 for $3000, with ...

The Apple, Inc. rumor mill keeps on churning with various new reports about an alleged forthcoming product launch event emerging Friday and Saturday. At the top of the list is a new date for the event, with Buzzfeed placing it as March 21st, one day before Apple is due in court over its feud with the ...

An Astoria, Oregon man has pleaded guilty to hacking 363 Apple and Gmail accounts, including those belonging to celebrities, and obtaining X-Rated pictures from a number of those accounts. Twenty-nine year-old Andrew Helton admitted that he was behind the scheme, which saw him target a range of people using a phishing scheme that involved him sending ...

All lives apparently don’t matter at social networking giant Facebook, Inc., with a memo to staff from Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg demanding they stop crossing out #blacklivesmatters messages on the company’s message board and replacing it with #alllivesmatter. According to the memo, obtained by Gizmodo who claim in its headline that it’s ...

A new report from International Data Corporation (IDC) has found the wearables market is booming, but while Apple, Inc. is adding to the overall growth of the market, Fitbit, Inc. is the market leader. The report found that vendors shipped a total of 27.4 million units during the fourth quarter of 2015, up over the ...

“All for one and one for all” may have been the famous motto of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père, but it could well apply to the top of the tech community this week with news that Apple is to get the support of its biggest tech rivals in its fight against the U.S. ...